Everything travel nurses need to know about travel nursing companies including how to find the best, how they operate, contract availability and more.

How to Find the Best Travel Nursing Recruiters

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As we’ve previously written, you will most likely be able to find a large number of travel nursing agencies that can meet all your needs in terms of services, benefits and assignment locations. As a result, you will still be stuck figuring out which agencies to actually work with. That’s where finding great travel nursing recruiters comes into play.

Recruiters can make bad agencies good and good agencies bad. Unfortunately, it can be tough to find really good travel nursing recruiters. So, in this article, we’ll provide details and tips to help you find the best travel nursing recruiters.

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How To Find Travel Nursing Agencies that Work in Your Desired Destinations

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If you’ve read our articles about “Finding Travel Nursing Companies,” you’ll probably agree that the question becomes, “Are you finding the agency, or is the agency finding you?” If you stop to think about this, you’ll discover that your approach to finding travel nursing agencies may actually expose you to sneaky ways for agencies to find you. This isn’t necessarily bad. However, it behooves you to actually find agencies that can meet your needs as opposed to fielding random inquiries from random agencies.
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Finding Travel Nursing Agencies – A Time-Saving Strategy

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Determining which travel nursing companies you’re interested in working with as a travel nurse can be extremely time consuming. You need to have a strategy that cuts to the point. In this blog post I’ll lay out a strategy for accomplishing this. The strategy is basic and there are only two steps. First, determine exactly what you want from travel nursing and an agency. Second, immediately determine if agencies can meet your needs when speaking with them. Read more

Finding Travel Nursing Companies – Agency Recruitment Practices

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We’ve discussed the many methods travel nursing agencies utilize to obtain the contact information of healthcare professionals. Once they have the information, it goes in to a data base where it is put to use by the agency’s recruiters. The recruiter’s primary focus is to find candidates, determine their qualifications, sell them on travel nursing jobs they’re qualified for, and ensure that their submission profiles are completed. Read more

Finding Travel Nursing Companies Using Blogs, Message Boards and Word of Mouth

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It’s imperative for travel nurses to research travel nursing agencies before they decide to work with them. There are many ways to do this. In previous articles, I’ve discussed rating and review services and broadcast services. In this article, I’ll review what travel nurses should know about using message boards (social media), blogs and word of mouth to find travel nursing companies to work with.

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